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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 575–581.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Deborah Nelson Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories , by Cassuto Leonard , Columbia University Press , 2009 . 328 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Review
Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History
of American Crime Stories...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (2): 129–160.
Published: 01 June 2018
... to the rule of law or by a more skeptical relationship to legal authority. The Middle of the Journey explores this question through debates about the Moscow Trials, Herman Melville’s Billy Budd , and a controversial local crime. Drawing on archival research, the author argues that Trilling sought to depict...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 March 2020
... monstrous than the war crimes and subsequent Allied apathy that Hannibal fights and bites against. Works Cited Demme Jonathan . dir. ( 1991 ) 2001 . The Silence of the Lambs . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios . DVD . Fuss Diana . 1995 . Identification Papers . New York : Routledge...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (1): 99–106.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Matthew Levay Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Surrealism and the Art of Crime , by Eburne Jonathan P. , Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2008 . 324 pages. Review
Criminal, Political, Surreal
Surrealism and the Art of Crime
by Jonathan P. Eburne
Ithaca: Cornell...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (1): 82–102.
Published: 01 March 2003
... literature” (112-13). Such crimes as subjectivity, purposeless
ness, pessimism, emotionalism, and formlessness, which Nicolson attributes
to avant-garde fiction epitomized by James Joyce’s Ulysses, are, she ar
gues, avenged by the causal structure, intellectual engagement, purpose
ful plot...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 117–140.
Published: 01 March 2012
..., nation, or gender, tend to generate weaker affective bonds.
In a review of Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller’s 2005 film Sin
City, Anthony Lane offers this observation regarding depictions of vio-
lent urban crime in contemporary American film: “We have, it is clear,
reached the lively dead end...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 519–527.
Published: 01 December 2015
...). In the thirty years between the Khmer Rouge atrocities and her composition of the book, only one official had been convicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Contestation over the definition of genocide has proven to be an obstacle to prosecution, with some scholars advocating for strict adherence...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (4): 484–510.
Published: 01 December 2015
... familiar ways of thinking about evidence, causality, and power. One might test these hypotheses by delving further into D’Agata’s draft, or into the work of nonfiction writers where, as has happened so often and so famously (Truman Capote, James Elroy, Erik Larson, Charles Bowden), crime and its...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 168–195.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of J. M. Coetzee’s oeuvre: how
does the white South African subject, and by extension the white South
African writer, respond to the crimes of apartheid in which he or she is
biopolitically implicated? As Curren witnesses the eruptions of violence
that occur during South Africa’s 1985–1989...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 299–328.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the inkblot’s amorphous contours, creativity forges an uneasy rapport with criminality. A blotter not only suggests the police blotter, or crime report, but also a scribbler, or sorry writer. And if ink is the sorry writer’s lifeblood, then blotting paper is the sine qua non of authorial practice. Inky...
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Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (3): 293–324.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... Such a literary confession
parallels what Peter Brooks points to as the all-too-common real-life sce
nario in which someone confesses to a crime that he has not commit
ted, either in a drive to justify an unrelated psychic sense of shame or
for other equally subconscious or unconscious...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 June 2000
... already been
conceded and “everything [is] allowed” (268).
In this environment marked by severe initial crimes and admissions,
Humbert’s less severe transgressions, his everyday incivilities, become more
humorous than damning as he comments devilishly on the superficial faults
of people around...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2006
....”
The restorative justice that the TRC seeks through the exposure of truth
should be contrasted to both retributive justice and reparative justice. Retribu
tive justice, grounded in ideas descended from Hammurabi’s code, would de
mand a punishment comparable to or in excess of the crime. In Discipline...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 1–31.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of the perpetrators, for both the Holocaust and American slavery. Finally, then, my interest is in the emerging consensus that, because an account based in economic self-interest might seem exculpatory, crimes like the Holocaust and slavery must be understood through the lens of race—as genocide. Despite Stingo’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 191–214.
Published: 01 June 2002
... of the 1940 novel Native Son, who un
der the constraints of his social condition commits a violent crime. Howe
took Bigger as a metaphor for the condition of black Americans, simul
taneously “a blow at the white man” that “forced him to recognize him
self as an oppressor” and “a blow at the black man...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (2): 145–174.
Published: 01 June 2006
... passed laws that came to be known as the sexual psychopath stat
utes in response to pressure from citizens’ groups and the news media in
the wake of a series of sex crime panics.7 These statutes did not put new
prohibitions on the books but mobilized new explanations for standing
prohibitions...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 287–321.
Published: 01 September 2009
... initiatives strongly argued that US cities
were becoming increasingly unmanageable spaces that were in the grip
of crime, poverty, and vice. Daniel Burnham, for instance, worried about
“the chaos incident to rapid growth, and especially to the influx of people
of many nationalities without common...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (4): 663–687.
Published: 01 December 2012
...),
a time when “on the public level, abortion was rarely discussed” (54).
More recently, historian Leslie Reagan has complicated the “century of
silence” thesis by reminding us that women did have abortions during
the years when abortion was a crime and did “speak of their abortions
among themselves...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (3): 275–294.
Published: 01 September 2018
...—means recognizing that there will be no justice (save perhaps God’s) for Corregidora’s crimes, no future for Corregidora’s family. I’ll begin by asking just why the Corregidora women view the command to “make generations” as sacrosanct. Early in the novel, Ursa repeats Great Gram’s justification...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 225–234.
Published: 01 June 2022
...). Percy writes of southern African Americans in blatantly racist terms that Lambert quotes: “Apparently there is something peculiarly Negroid in the Negro’s attitude toward, and aptitude for, crimes of violence. He seems to have resisted, except on the surface, ethics and to have rejected our standards...
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